EPL Season 2017/2018

[Jim05]

Good start to the season. Put the Hammers to the sword. Matic, Pogba and Miki were superb through the middle

[jakovasaurus]

Good start to the season. Put the Hammers to the sword. Matic, Pogba and Miki were superb through the middle

**** we rolled over in midfield. Pathetic.

When an 18 year old CB playing his second game comes off the bench and is our best midfielder for the day, it's never gonna end well.

Lanzini, Antonio, Kouyate and hopefully a new midfield signing can't come quick enough.

[Wedgie]

Nice to do a bit better in Newcastle than our last game there.

[Jim05]

Champions: Man City
Runner up: United
FA Cup: United
League Cup: Arsenal
Golden Boot: Aguero
POTY: Pogba
Relegated: Brighton, Newcastle, Palace

[johntheclaret]

Good start to the season. Put the Hammers to the sword. Matic, Pogba and Miki were superb through the middle

United were awesome. Matic and Pogba looked like they had played together for years and they can only get better.

United to win the league for me this year, narrowly pipping the Clarets to the post in a last gasp heartbreaking season finale.
Chelsea will brush themselves down pretty quickly to finish 3rd and Everton to make the CL spot.

Big losers this year will be Spurs imo. They didn't have any depth which cost them last year and the year before and they've done nothing yet to strengthen the side. Plenty of rumblings about pay too. Spurs earn £205m a year and spend 48% on players wages, the lowest of the big 5 (excluding Glenelg), whereas United earn £530m a season and spend 60% on players wages. Liverpool spend 69% of their £310m annual income so spending big doesn't necessarily bring success.

At the bottom, Toons haven't done anything either and will go down because of that, along with Brighton and maybe Palace.

[Wedgie]

Good start to the season. Put the Hammers to the sword. Matic, Pogba and Miki were superb through the middle

United were awesome. Matic and Pogba looked like they had played together for years and they can only get better.

United to win the league for me this year, narrowly pipping the Clarets to the post in a last gasp heartbreaking season finale.
Chelsea will brush themselves down pretty quickly to finish 3rd and Everton to make the CL spot.

Big losers this year will be Spurs imo. They didn't have any depth which cost them last year and the year before and they've done nothing yet to strengthen the side. Plenty of rumblings about pay too. Spurs earn £205m a year and spend 48% on players wages, the lowest of the big 5 (excluding Glenelg), whereas United earn £530m a season and spend 60% on players wages. Liverpool spend 69% of their £310m annual income so spending big doesn't necessarily bring success.

At the bottom, Toons haven't done anything either and will go down because of that, along with Brighton and maybe Palace.

I read this only lasf week, I assume it is wrong going on what youre saying?

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[Bully]

costa has been told that he is contracted to the club and advised to return to club training and get fit for the remainder of the games left this season

[Wedgie]

Can I just add I too expect Spurs to drop away even though I hope I'm wrong and we are a young side who will only get better, the Wembley factor where we had a terrible return last year in the Champions League is my thinking as we had the best home ground advantage at WHL more than any team last season. Hopefully just a temporary blip if there is one till we move back to the new WHL.

[johntheclaret]

Good start to the season. Put the Hammers to the sword. Matic, Pogba and Miki were superb through the middle

United were awesome. Matic and Pogba looked like they had played together for years and they can only get better.

United to win the league for me this year, narrowly pipping the Clarets to the post in a last gasp heartbreaking season finale.
Chelsea will brush themselves down pretty quickly to finish 3rd and Everton to make the CL spot.

Big losers this year will be Spurs imo. They didn't have any depth which cost them last year and the year before and they've done nothing yet to strengthen the side. Plenty of rumblings about pay too. Spurs earn £205m a year and spend 48% on players wages, the lowest of the big 5 (excluding Glenelg), whereas United earn £530m a season and spend 60% on players wages. Liverpool spend 69% of their £310m annual income so spending big doesn't necessarily bring success.

At the bottom, Toons haven't done anything either and will go down because of that, along with Brighton and maybe Palace.

I read this only lasf week, I assume it is wrong going on what youre saying?

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Not really. I think it pretty much supports what I'm saying other than some of the percentages. My figures are from the BBC on Sunday night. What it confirms is that of the big 5 Spurs earn the least but also pay the least.

[Wedgie]

Good start to the season. Put the Hammers to the sword. Matic, Pogba and Miki were superb through the middle

United were awesome. Matic and Pogba looked like they had played together for years and they can only get better.

United to win the league for me this year, narrowly pipping the Clarets to the post in a last gasp heartbreaking season finale.
Chelsea will brush themselves down pretty quickly to finish 3rd and Everton to make the CL spot.

Big losers this year will be Spurs imo. They didn't have any depth which cost them last year and the year before and they've done nothing yet to strengthen the side. Plenty of rumblings about pay too. Spurs earn £205m a year and spend 48% on players wages, the lowest of the big 5 (excluding Glenelg), whereas United earn £530m a season and spend 60% on players wages. Liverpool spend 69% of their £310m annual income so spending big doesn't necessarily bring success.

At the bottom, Toons haven't done anything either and will go down because of that, along with Brighton and maybe Palace.

I read this only lasf week, I assume it is wrong going on what youre saying?

FB_IMG_1502755326180.jpg

Not really. I think it pretty much supports what I'm saying other than some of the percentages. My figures are from the BBC on Sunday night. What it confirms is that of the big 5 Spurs earn the least but also pay the least.

That was always going to happen until we are settled into our new stadium, then we might rise up the table as far as the payments in the big 5 go in that retrospect and improve even more despite having won more games in the EPL in the last two years than any other team. Exciting times for Spurs fans except for the short term pain we will probably suffer playing out of Wembley, results may go backwards but itll be great for marketing getting more to games though.

[cossi11]

Gylfi Sigurdsson fee agreed between Everton and Swansea at $45m

Gareth Barry has moved to West Brom.

[johntheclaret]

Gylfi Sigurdsson fee agreed between Everton and Swansea at $45m

Gareth Barry has moved to West Brom.

Sigurdsson is a great pick up by Everton and just reinforces my top 4 spot for them. We looked at him but couldn't afford his wages let alone his transfer fee.

[Wedgie]

Gylfi Sigurdsson fee agreed between Everton and Swansea at $45m

Gareth Barry has moved to West Brom.

Sigurdsson is a great pick up by Everton and just reinforces my top 4 spot for them. We looked at him but couldn't afford his wages let alone his transfer fee.

Spurs get 10% of thefransfer too, that almost covers what we paid for Dele Ali!

[johntheclaret]

United were awesome. Matic and Pogba looked like they had played together for years and they can only get better.

United to win the league for me this year, narrowly pipping the Clarets to the post in a last gasp heartbreaking season finale.
Chelsea will brush themselves down pretty quickly to finish 3rd and Everton to make the CL spot.

Big losers this year will be Spurs imo. They didn't have any depth which cost them last year and the year before and they've done nothing yet to strengthen the side. Plenty of rumblings about pay too. Spurs earn £205m a year and spend 48% on players wages, the lowest of the big 5 (excluding Glenelg), whereas United earn £530m a season and spend 60% on players wages. Liverpool spend 69% of their £310m annual income so spending big doesn't necessarily bring success.

At the bottom, Toons haven't done anything either and will go down because of that, along with Brighton and maybe Palace.

I read this only lasf week, I assume it is wrong going on what youre saying?

FB_IMG_1502755326180.jpg

Not really. I think it pretty much supports what I'm saying other than some of the percentages. My figures are from the BBC on Sunday night. What it confirms is that of the big 5 Spurs earn the least but also pay the least.

That was always going to happen until we are settled into our new stadium, then we might rise up the table as far as the payments in the big 5 go in that retrospect and improve even more despite having won more games in the EPL in the last two years than any other team. Exciting times for Spurs fans except for the short term pain we will probably suffer playing out of Wembley, results may go backwards but itll be great for marketing getting more to games though.

Agree Wembly might hurt Spurs. Others might be inspired to put in their best game at Wembley.
Personally I'm a bit disappointed that the FA agreed to it. Just shows money means more to them than the sanctity of the mother stadium. Still I guess that happened when they decided to allow Spurs And Arsenal play the FA semi final there and open the doors to all semi's. To play a final at Wembley was special, all long since gone sadly. It's like allowing teams who finish 4th to compete in the champions league. How are they champions when hey finish 2nd, 3rd or 4th. It makes the championship almost worthless. Wenger couldn't give a **** about finishing 1st, al long as he gets the gunners into the CL for the extra revenue. That would be the priority of them all. And that's why the European Cups won by Liverpool, Villa, Forest etc will always be worth more in prestige than anything a team finishing 4th in their respective league, before losing during the "group" stages but still getting through as a 2nd best or whatever.

Anyway, sorry mate, rant over.

Back to Spurs, more bums on seats in the new stadium will help towards the revenue but they will have to change their policy on wages if they are going to build a team with enough depth to compete with City, United! Chelsea. Having Said that, Rose is a tosser for complaining about his wages after he chose to sign a 5 year contract 12 months ago. It's not like he was forced to sign up, so imho he should stfu and get on with what he is being paid to do.

[Bully]

Forvever in our shadow then

Spurs are going through the same stuff as arsenal did -
Build a new stadium, no new players coming in only 17 year old french no bodies who maybe special in 5 years time .

Players wanting out because they are not paid enough and think the world of themselves and no new talent coming in

Be a few long years ahead for that lot

[Wedgie]

Hooray, it looks like we've finally signed someone!

Tottenham have had a bid accepted by Ajax for defender Davinson Sanchez that could be worth up to a club-record £40m, according to Sky sources.

The highly-rated centre-half was Ajax's player of the year last season and was also a target for Barcelona and Inter Milan.

Sanchez has won two caps for Colombia and scored six goals in his first season in Holland's Eredivisie, making a total of 43 appearances after signing last summer from Atletico Nacional.

[BZB27]

And like that after 40 mins of being 1 nil upLukaku Proga and Martial in the space of 4 minutes united go 4 nil up

[Jim05]

Absolutely slaughtered them in the final 10 minutes. Huge luxury to bring on Tony when the opposition are buggered.

[nuggety goodness]

Massive win for the Potters over Arsenal overnight! Jesé with the winner on debut. Butland with so many saves, gunners got in behind with ease but just couldn't manufacture a goal. The disallowed Lacazette goal was clearly ([emoji6]) offside............[emoji85]

First time we've won one of our first 5 games in 3 years!!!

Also saw the Arnautovic elbow... easiest red that ref will give all year... the boy can play but outbursts of frustration like that and his body language and attitude can be very challenging...

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[Jim05]

Bilic first manager to be sacked, load up on it